It is kind of blowing my mind as well. okay, so this week pretty much rocked. we woke up to some rockin fog this morning... first time in Bolivia that i have seen fog... weird. o and i finally got all of your packages and letters!! that took two and a half months... but ya, thank you for the christmas notes and packages. they really mean a lot. shout out to shawn and chelsea. their letter pretty much was super hilarious. thanks to the ward too! it was really fun to read all of the notes from family and friends. and all of the members who tried to read my letters really enjoyed the notes in spanish too in my giant christmas card. haha!
Okay, well what happened this week? we have been dodging children and adults with water guns, buckets, and water balloons. all week long.. sigh. worst holiday ever. And we found out that carnival is an old tradition where they pretty much worship the devil. they do what ever they want for two weeks, and then it is exactly 40 days before easter, Like the demon inside of everyone is released, and then afterwards they go to church to repent for 40 days before easter for all that they did during carnival. They ignore all of the laws and get super drunk. we cant leave our house for four days during the climax of this holiday. sigh.... boring. Now they are starting to throw ice water balloons... yikes. so illegal. We now wear our plastic ponchos where ever we go. haha we look ridiculous and slightly like blue aliens... and everyone laughs at us, but at least my scriptures are protected. also the drunk bands are becoming more and more common. sigh... oi. We actually had two drunk old ladies give us cactus fruit and figs the other day .. so random. but these two types of fruit are like super delicious... and i totally got to eat fruit that Jesus ate.. blew your mind again. o ya and there is the plant here that they used to make Christ´s crown of thorns. it is wicked sharp. yikes.
We helped a lady wash her laundry in a stream this week... how many of you have had that experience? awesome....
We are teaching a guy, and his uncle from Chile is listening in on our lessons too... it is the same guy that invited all of his atheist friends to the lessons. well, his uncle is a math professor in Chile and he is Bahai. which is like buddhist christian ish... i think... the lessons are getting more and more interesting every single time. But his uncle is actually really cool. haha! O ya and one of the girls here got her mission call to serve in the arizona temple, cool right? she is leaving in march. she came to proselyte with us this week. which makes her very brave to come out with us during carnival. she is super cool.
I also had to get all of my shoes repaired this week... Somehow every pair of shoes that i own broke in the same week. sigh... but ya, its all good now. o ya and we bought some hair dye... we were bored... needless to say, i am not really blonde anymore.... Just blew your mind AGAIN!! wow i am rockin this letter. Well i will just leave it at that... i hope that you have a great week! good luck and godspeed Muhahahahaha!
Hermana Milne
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